Jason Wright

I work in a variety of media – drawing, painting, and sculpture, as well as installation and site specific works. I have roots in the fine art tradition, but in addition, my work is influenced and inspired by a wide range of everyday and vernacular art-making traditions. In my artistic practice I explore a variety of techniques and interests, part of a broader goal of finding connections across varied aesthetic, and social, perspectives. Through art, my goal is to engage with others, and together explore shared visionary spaces.

One aspect of my practice is that I like to work with found and recycled materials, particularly in my sculpture and site-specific work – it helps me connect to the world around me, to see it and feel it more directly. My two dimensional work also regularly uses found materials, as well as an underlying process of recycling. In those works, in addition to found imagery and materials, the raw material is often my previous unsold artwork, or miscellaneous studio remnants. Recent paintings likewise incorporate a process of finding: marks, forms, and gestures are cultivated for discovery and revelation, and mined from an ever-growing stockpile of found and collected visual culture. An ephemeral spirit of explo...

MFA, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

2021 Spring Break Art Show NYC, Gregg Woolard & Ulli Rimkus Curators, 2021 Burning Man Boundless Space, Sotheby's, NYC; 2019 Boyz Keep Swinging, Keyes Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY; 2018 Other Art Fair LA & NYC; 2017 Atlas Gallery Newburgh, NY; 2016 Ship in the Woods, San Diego, CA; 2015 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ, 2014 Water St. Commons Sculpture Park, Ypsilanti, MI; 2012 Max Fish NYC; 2011 The Peripheterists, Apex Art NYC; 2000 - 2011 Black Rock City NV; 2009 Ever Gold SF, CA; 2005 Outrageous Look Brooklyn, NY; 2004 Tabor Hill Gallery Ann Arbor MI; 2003 Dreamland, Ypsilanti, MI; 1998 MFA ’98, Berkeley Museum, CA; 1995 City Folk, Holly Solomon, NYC; 1994 Thread Waxing Space, NYC; 1993 Urban Analysis, Barbara Braathen NYC, 1993 East of Abstraction, NYC; 1990 Two Mavericks, Willoughby Sharp NYC